Good Morning and Happy Tuesday. Welcome to issue 48 of The Tech Stop.

Full shifts for humanoid robots, AI energy demands, defense and car partnerships, and new security threats.

1. Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid robots are now working full shifts. At $10-25/hour operating costs versus $20/hour for entry-level human workers, humanoids are reaching cost parity while offering 24/7 operation. More.
   
   POV: Audit dangerous manual processes and repetitive material handling tasks.

2. AI data centres could quadruple electricity demand by 2032, with potential blackouts during peak summer demand as AI infrastructure competes for grid capacity. More.

   POV: Conduct energy audit and evaluate backup power systems; negotiate fixed-rate electricity contracts.

3. Defense officials discuss producing weapons/military supplies with car manufacturers, for drone and missile production. More.

   POV: Evaluate potential for dual-use production lines and government facility partnerships.

4. Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos Preview model found 271 security vulnerabilities. Manufacturing systems with legacy code face security risks as these AI tools become accessible to bad actors. More.

   POV: Conduct security audit of all manufacturing control systems and legacy applications.

Something to keep an eye on: Engineers have cracked one of printed electronics' most stubborn problems: how to print circuits on to almost anything. More.

We’re all done for now folks, see you again, same time, same place next week! 😀